Washington -
An attorney for President Donald Trump sought Thursday to halt publication of an upcoming bombshell-filled book about his White House, claiming it was "libelous."The cease and desist letter sent to author Michael Wolff and publisher Henry Holt and Co.

Paris -
French screen icon Brigitte Bardot will next month publish a book on her decades-long campaign for animal rights, she told AFP on Tuesday, taking a swipe at President Emmanuel Macron on the issue.

Professor Ziva Flamhaft from Queens College sat down and chatted with Digital Journal about her new political memoir, "War Widow." She also talked about the digital transformation of the book publishing industry.

Frankfurt Am Main -
Italian mountaineer Reinhold Messner is perhaps one of the world's last great adventurers: he has conquered the planet's highest peaks, crossed Antarctica and hunted for the elusive Yeti.

Frankfurt Am Main -
Award-winning novelist Margaret Atwood on Saturday said Donald Trump's America reminded her of Europe in the 1930s, and warned that the world was "at a moment of change and disruption".

Frankfurt Am Main -
Thinking back to his months in an Istanbul prison last year, Turkish journalist Can Dundar recalls a fellow inmate asking a guard for a book from the prison library."We don't have the book, but we have the author," came the reply.

Frankfurt Am Main -
God cannot survive science, "The Da Vinci Code" author Dan Brown said on Thursday, putting his faith in technological advances to connect people in new ways that would eventually scrap the need for religion."Historically, no god has survived science.

New York -
Defeated Democratic White House hopeful Hillary Clinton promises to let her guard down and explain what happened in her shock electoral defeat to Donald Trump, including the mistakes she made, in a book to published in September.

In a social media stunt that has gone terribly wrong, a woman has shot her boyfriend dead as part of a YouTube stunt. The aim was for the boyfriend to stop a bullet with a book while his girlfriend shot him.

New York -
US First Daughter Ivanka Trump revived ethics concerns Tuesday by publishing a self-help book for working women, albeit peppered with anecdotes likely to jar on those outside the moneyed elite.

A still from Spirit Seeker. Gutierrez listened to Coltrane’s work repeatedly while working on the book. “Non-stop,” he confirms. For part of the time, he even meditated, which lead to a clarified approach to his own art-making.

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In One Person, a new book by John Irving

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Bunny Gillespie at the Colma Historical Association with the Arcadia book series. She wrote a book about Westlake.